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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Floyd Parker, a federal prisoner, and one of two inmates of the Dane County Jail who started the cell block fire, was rescued by sheriff's officials and ci... |
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| Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prison identification photograph of Carl Braden after his conviction for sedition. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Carl Braden (center) leaves the LaGrange Prison with his wife Anne and his attorney Robert Zollinger. Braden was released after a Supreme Court decision ru... |
| Date: | 05 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden at the time of their surrender to federal authorities. Both men had refused to testify to before the House Un-American Acti... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster created by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), advocating support of prison rebellions, and the abolishment of alleged racist prison terror. Fe... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the release of Karl Armstrong, who was incarcerated for his involvement in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
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| Description: | View of an Angolian prisoner with hands and feet bound in a wooden brace. Caption reads, "These methods were used to capture and hold the prisoners which w... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front member captures an Algerian traitor who helped the French. The FLN member, wearing grass on his hat and shirt as camoufl... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian traitor who claimed to have killed many Algerian women and children is sitting handcuffed by a rock wall, awaiting trial by the National Libera... |
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